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No. 695,496. Patented Mar; I8, 1902.

A. SCHE RMERHURN.

INVALIDS ROBE.

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WIT EESEE No. 695,496. Patented mar. 18,1902.

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INVALIDS ROBE.

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ADELIN E SCHERMERHORN, OF TROY, NEW" YORK.

INVALIDS ROBE."

SPECIFICATION forming part of Letters Patent No. 695,496, dated March18, 1902.

Application filed July 11, 1901.

.T 0 aZZ whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, ADELINE SOHERMER- HORN, a citizen of the UnitedStates, residing at Troy, county of Rensselaer, and State of New York,have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Invalids Robes, ofwhich the following is a specification.

The invention relates to such improvements; and it consists of the novelconstruction and combination of parts hereinafter described andsubsequently claimed.

Reference may be had to the accompanying drawings, and the referencecharacters marked thereon, which form a part of this specification.

Similar characters refer to similar parts in the several figures.

Figure 1 of the drawings is a front elevation of my improved garmentwith a portion of the sleeves broken away and one edge of the front flaprolled back for convenience of illustration. Fig. 2 is a back elevationof the same. Fig. 3 is an elevation of the front flap detached. Fig. 4is an elevation of the back flap detached. Fig. 5 isa front view of thesimilar sections of the body part, detached, slightly separated fromeach other with the flaps removed.

The object of my invention is to provide a robe or garment adapted forthe use of inva- 'lids in that it can be conveniently applied to orremoved from the wearer in detachable parts or sections, which aresecured together upon the wearer to present the appearance of and toserve as a complete garment.

The body part of the garment is composed of two similar sections 1 and2, which are adapted to be secured together along their front edges bymeans of the buttonholes 3 and buttons 4., and along their back edges bymeans of .the buttonhole 5 and the button 6. (Shown in Fig. 2.) Thelower portions of these sections are also adapted to be further securedto each other by means of the tape or tapes 7 and 8, which are securedat one end to the several sections at the back of the garmentthe tape 7to the section 2 by the stitching 9 and the tape 8 to the section 1, asby the stitching 10, as seen in Fig. 5. These tapes are both brought tothe outer side of the body'of the garment at the back, as by shown inFig. 1.

passing the tape fastened to one of said sec- Serial No. 67,864. (Nomedal.)

tions, as tape 7, outwardly through the slit 5 The garmentthebody-section 1 and the other edge with the buttons 15 on thebody-section 2. The front flap 16 is provided with similar buttonholes17, adapted to receive the respective buttons 14 and '15 on thebody-sections, and

with a middle buttonhole 18,adapted to be connected with the lowermostfront button on the body-section 1 after the same hasbeen inserted inits appropriate buttonhole 3 in the section 2.

The flaps are further secured to the body-sections by means of the tapes7 and 8, which are passed outwardlythrough the tape openingsor slits 21in the .back flap, then inwardly through the slits 22 in said back flap,then passed between the body and flaps around to the front of thegarment, where they are passed outwardly through the slits 23 in thefront flap and have their ends tied together, as The lapping portions ofthe body-sections and flaps, being at or near the waist-line of thegarment, may be drawn in or gathered by means of these shirring-tapes tofit as closely as desired the waist of the wearer, whereby the tapesserve the double purpose of assisting in keeping the lapping portions ofthe garment together and also to' soiled flap may be substituted for asoiledone and a clean flap attached in place of the partially-soiledflap,thus economizing in the number of flaps necessarily accompanyingeach garment. I am also able after detaching the flaps to remove thebody part ofthe garment from the wearer one section at a time by de- Itaching the front and back portions of the two body-sections from eachother, thus causing the wearer the least inconvenience possible.

The wearer of the garment may be a person confined to the bed and unableto assume a sitting posture, in which case by rolling the person over onone side the section on the other side can be easily applied or removedor changed by substituting a clean for a soiled section, and in likemanner the other section can be applied, removed, or changed by rollingthe person over upon the other side.

\Vhat I claim as new, and desire to secure by Letters Patent, is-

1. An invalids robe comprising an adjustable body composed of twosimilar detachable sections and means for adjustably securing suchsections together; detachable front and back flaps; and means fordetachably and adjustably securing such flaps to the adjusted body,substantially as described.

2. An invalids robe comprising a body and detachable front and backbody-lapping flaps having tape-openings in the lapping parts at or nearthe waist-line; and shirringtapes passed through such openings fordetachably and adjustably securing the flaps to the body and at the sametime adjusting the size of the waist, substantially as described.

3. An in valids robe comprising a body and detachable interchangeablefront and back flaps, and means for detachably and interchangeablysecuring the flaps to the body, substantially as described.

In testimony whereof I have hereunto set my hand this 30th day of May,1901.

ADELINE SCHERMERTIORN.

\Vitnesses:

GEO. A. MOSHER, FRANK C. (JUR'rIs.

